3 lectures on: Mechanics of Glasses.
Glasses are created either by a rapid quench in temperature of a liquid or by increasing the packing fraction in a particle suspension above jamming, such that particles are trapped into metastable states within a highly complex potential energy landscape.The dynamics of these systems is strongly out-of-equilibrium and there is no unifying theory to describe the yielding and the flow of these glassy systems under applied forces. However, there exist several approaches, often
phenomenological, to tackle these questions and in this course I will cover amongst other things the mode-coupling approach, as well as the microscopic and mesoscopic approaches proposed in the literature.